Windows 8 has been making headlines around the web recently. First, Microsoft released the Consumer Preview, much to the delight of Windows users. And then it was reported that the preview hit 1 million download within first 24 hours. It seems the popularity of Windows 8 is starting to rub on others. Kobo has announced that it will release an e-reading app for Windows 8. This makes Kobo the first ebook retailer to launch it’s app for Windows 8.

The world has been eagerly waiting for Windows 8 to finally come out – specifically ever since Microsoft had released the developer preview, the users have been waiting for a beta version, which Microsoft now termed ‘Consumer Preview.’ With so much hype surrounding the release, it shouldn’t surprise one now that Microsoft has said that the beta version has been downloaded a million times within the first 24 hours!!

Microsoft used a transparent OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) in their research in June 2010. They became successful in their research. Microsoft used a camera beneath a transparent OLED to create gesture-based interaction. Recently, Microsoft research has unveiled a new research project. By using a Samsung-made transparent OLED and a Kinect camera, a 3D interactive desktop becomes enabled. This is simply a different creative project.

Social media is huge in America, there is no doubt about it. But it is also so in rest of the world too, especially Europe and Japan. Many regions are new to it and some have excelled in using it wonderfully like Iran, Egypt, Syria, and Bahrain, amongst others. Some social networks are very popularly depending on the regions, like Orkut in Brazil is bigger than Facebook, though there the latter is almost catching up now.

Internet privacy matter has really become an issue these days mostly due to the vague users’ accounts settings due to which they often get confused and leave themselves vulnerable to things they don’t want to be part of. The information they otherwise would want to keep private, they accidently share with the world. But aside from the complexity of these user’s settings for the accounts, there is also a debate about how and why social networking sites are using data from members for their own reasons and benefits.

This year’s edition of Mobile World Congress is a very good opportunity for the companies to show off its new technologies and for tech oriented journalists to dismiss or to confirm rumors that captured everyone attention lately. When it comes to Microsoft’s new update of Windows Phone 7.5, nicknamed Tango, the software comes as confirmation of what analysts predicted, but also with a few intriguing features and limitations.

Recently Strategy Analytics has unveiled a sensational news about mobile phone manufacturer giant NOKIA and the news is Nokia captured top position as the world’s number one Microsoft smartphone vendor for the first time ever. NOKIA acquires in first position replacing Taiwanese vendor HTC and apparently it seems that it has been possible for Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 smartphones which both launched in November 2011.

Microsoft doesn’t seem to lack it’s creativity to it’s own platforms and has often launched products from platforms from other than it’s own. First we had a whole lot of Bing apps that were introduced, not through Windows Phone but on iOS devices last year. Then Microsoft also released the 360-degree panorama photograph app, Photosynth which didn’t debut on Windows Phone either. But it seems that with better Windows Phone devices now on their way, the users may finally get a Photosynth app for Windows Phone some time soon.

It can sometimes be very useful to customize your computer in every single detail. Windows allows you to modify the particular action to perform when pressing the power button on your computer. In this tutorial e will show you how to perform this procedure which works equally well in Windows 7, but also under Windows Vista.

Sony has been facing increasingly greater competition from other gaming console makers such as Microsoft. Especially now that Microsoft is trying to make the motion-sensor Kinect a regular part of it’s game console, Sony is under pressure to up the game if it wants to stand it’s ground. Sony already has added enhancements to it’s recent release, PS Vita and now we are hearing that an upcoming Sony game console may be using AMD’s graphics technology.

By default, Microsoft Word saves your documents in .docx format. If you need to share them, for example by e-mail, it is preferable to define a default saving format which offers greater compatibility to prevent you to constantly send files to those who do not have Office 2007 – 2010. In this tutorial I will show you how to define a default savings format in MS Word 2007/2010.

If you have a Windows Live account whether it is a hotmail, live messenger, Xbox…, you automatically have an area of free online storage of 25GB named SkyDrive. One of the new Office 2010 features is possibility to save your Word, Excel, PowerPoint or any other Office documents directly to SkyDrive with a single click. In this tutorial I will show you how to do that.

Rumors have been doing rounds on the web about a Microsoft Office for iPad app. In fact, The Daily has gone on to even present what it calls the ‘first glimpse’ of the app running on the tablet. According to The Daily’s Matt Hickey, he got to spend some time with a ‘working prototype’ of the app and that the app for the Office suite has the same metro-look that Microsoft seems focused on, of late. Microsoft, on the other hand, has debunked these claims as ‘based on inaccurate rumors and speculation.’

Lovers of music rejoice. It has come to our attention that Microsoft might be planning something new and exciting for you, in the form of a new music service, that can be integrated to work with Xbox and a shady upcoming Windows based phone. As we know so far, Microsoft hasn’t had the best of luck in the digital music business. Take for example the Zune service which was pretty much ignored by the general public. I mean, have you heard of a single person who uses their last.fm on the Xbox 360? It does sound a little forced. The company is of course, very unhappy with that, and apparently is making big plans to change it.

The weight limit for attachments is a fairly common problem when it comes to send a PowerPoint file. If your presentation is full of HD videos and images, you can try compressing these videos and images to reduce the overall size of the presentation. You can also try few other things which you probably didn’t knew exist in PowerPoint and save precious Megabits when you need to attach your presentation to an email. This tutorial will show you many possible ways how to do that.

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